1910
24364

TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RUDNYA 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COPY TO MOGILEV, PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
26 February 1919

I can receive you if not personally, then through my secretary. In my opinion, 
the plan of the communists of Mikulinskaya volost is not a bad one, but it would 
be desirable to have at least a brief written opinion from Orsha and Mogilev on 
the reasons for their negative attitude*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

3694

MEMORANDUM
TO THE DEPUTY COMMISSAR OF FOOD
February 1919

1) Can you help Yuzhа?**
2) If you don't know, can you answer tomorrow morning?
3) I had an excellent worker from them, promises workers: what kind and how 
many are needed to be requested.

Village Yuzha of Vyazniki District of Vladimir Province,
Committee of Bolsheviks (delegate Borzov).

*
The Chairman of the Rudnya Executive Committee of Mikulinskaya Volost 
of Orsha District of Mogilev Province sent a telegram to V. I. Lenin requesting 
a meeting to discuss the organization by communists of Mikulinskaya Volost 
of a workers' cooperative. The telegram also reported that the leaders of the 
district and provincial organizations of Orsha and Mogilev had taken a negative 
attitude toward the plan of the Mikulinsky communists. On the telegram there 
is a notation by V. I. Lenin: "To archive. Answered by telegram 26 February" 
(Archive of IMEL, document No. 3874).

**
The matter concerns food supply to workers of the Yuzhskaya state textile factory.

LENINIST COLLECTION

MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY*
4 March 1919

17615

One cannot circumvent decrees: for such a proposal alone they put you on 
trial. But to carry through the Tsik an exception is possible and I advise this.

2

3929

One must know the law: I don't remember through whom exceptions go.

24368

TELEGRAM TO THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION
FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SPECULATION
STATION SHARYA
15 March 1919

Workers of the state sawmill Ivan Kulikov and Elena Grigoryeva complain 
of confiscation from them of 7 poods of rye for 14 dependents. Report the reason.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

Printed from the 
original signed by
V. I. Lenin.

*
The Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars turned to V. I. Lenin 
with a request to hire a new staff member in the Secretariat of the Council 
of People's Commissars, recommended by the bureau of the collective. The 
Manager of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars objected to this, 
citing the decree "On Restricting Joint Service of Relatives in Soviet Institutions." 
In connection with this, the Secretary wrote to V. I. Lenin that the staff member 
recommended by the collective was "a very valuable worker and we are particularly 
interested in obtaining her, because we have very few good workers. Is it not 
possible to circumvent the decree?"